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Web Experiments, an 80-Foot Comic, and the South Korean Ministry of Defense

September 17th, 2010

Some odds and ends, this being Friday.

Via Kickstarter, news of an 80-foot comic being created for Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. It seems to be piggybacking on a somewhat old-fashioned idea of the contents of the “comic book medium” [*shudder*], but you gotta give ‘em points for the form.

Finally, via Ed Spradley, news of the South Korean Ministry of Defense’s efforts to explain their position in the recent alleged sinking of a South Korean patrol boat by North Korea, using a non-fiction comic distributed to school children. The effort is getting mixed reactions apparently, but it’s certainly a striking reminder of how more fully-integrated comics are in the Manwha/Manga culture than here in the West.

I’ve actually been to a performance of The Astronaut’s Birthday. I think the the closest analogue to it would be a motion comic (mostly comics sequences projected onto the building, with limited animation for some movement and the scene transitions). Worth at least checking out if someone’s in the area.